Fender's new take on Marshall's classic version of a Tweed Fender classic... the 1st real review is in!

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/24062-fender-bassbreaker---review

Seems like a damn cool amp. Wouldn't mind getting one oneday especially at that price. Plus its attenuated which is a bonus. Wonder if this will make its way to being a pretty popular amp with a good following in ten years time? Still weird for this to come from fender in my opinion even though early Marshalls were pretty much fenders with a few tweaks

I can only guess fender feels like they're losing a lot of market share. To be honest, the only new Fender amps I see selling out of stores around here are Blues Juniors, the Hot Rod amps and Deluxe Reverb Reissues. Even those Supersonic Amps failed to fly off the shelves and I thought they would appeal to a lot of people (and the price was right). Maybe they sold well globally though, I dunno. But the Fenders hat people keep buying are the simpler, affordable combo amps. I enver see people use the gain features on their hotrods, they just run pedals or blast them for power tube distortion.

If you think about it, Fender hasn't put out an affordable vintage style amp in the modern era. Look at the Tiny Terror and Vox's new AC10 flying off the shelves. People are getting back into basic circuits that just sound good.

Maybe. I only really see the hotrod and hotrod deluxe selling well with their amps around here. I think fender amps are pretty over priced when you look at other amps from other manufacturers though I still want a twin reverb.

Fender hasn't had a hit with a new amp in ages. When did they release the hotrods and the blues amps? Mid 90s? Early 90s? They are 20 year-old designs now. I think in the UK most of your cost is the import duties and such. Fenders are very affordable here. Even the handwired vintage reissues like the low power tweed twin they released is about the same cost as Victoria's comparable boutique version. Over here Marshalls and most Oranges cost an arm and a leg (for some reason Korg manages to keep the cost down on Vox amps). The handwired Orange and Marshalls are prohibitively expensive over here and its cheaper to go with a boutique clone. They should call the JTM45 the Marshall Bank Breaker!

But I am seriously thinking of making some time to go to a big box guitar store so I can try this new Fender. I'm curious even though I suspect I will be let down in the end. I'm not a huge tweed bassman fan and I'm kinda Marshalled out at this point. I got rid of my plexi because it was too loud, but I was also getting sick of it. All of the tweed bassmanish amps are really finicky, one trick ponies. I wish Fender woulda done one of these bassbreakers with 6V6 tubes instead of the el84 models they wound up releasing... I was really excited when they did the 25 watt 6V6 loaded supersonic, those amps are not my cup of tea, but I really thought Fender might do more new 6V6 designs, but it hasn't happened yet.

I can only guess fender feels like they're losing a lot of market share. To be honest, the only new Fender amps I see selling out of stores around here are Blues Juniors, the Hot Rod amps and Deluxe Reverb Reissues.

Maybe it has something to do with aesthetics? Or perhaps how many famous artists use these amplifiers? Just a thought, really. Look at the pros on this site who've been spotted with these amps. Deluxe Reverbs are widely used by pros, and the Hot Rod Deville series is used just as widely.

But like I said, just a thought.

Edit: If the Blues Juniors are selling, i'm betting it has the same marketing scheme as the Tiny Terror: Fantastic sound, small enclosure (not so much for the Junior, but still fairly small), and "no-frills". Extremely simple to handle. I wouldn't call this regression, but in a way, perhaps people are favouring less effects and more tone.